Julie Derbyshire
Fragile Alchemy (Series)
DESCRIPTION
Experimenting with a synthesis of disciplines (performative, sculptural and photographic) to explore themes of transience and the ephemerality of life through the visual representation of a temporary paper artefact, fabricated to be photographed and subsequently destroyed. What remains is the photographic trace.
Paper, a two dimensional material used and disposed of everyday with little thought, yet delicate and vulnerable in nature, becomes a three dimensional object. Not only visible as the surface upon which representations appear but also as the substance of a work itself, finding its own expression. The interventions effect upon the paper such as folding, piercing and ultimately burning, implicate notions of creation, transformation and destruction that are the fundamental conditions of existence.
C-Type Print on Kodak Metallic
AUTHOR
Biography
2015 BA Hons. Photography (First Class), University of Westminster
Awards
02/2016 Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Photographic Art, Finalist
07/2015 Travers Smith Art Awards, work selected for exhibition from October 2015 to August 2016
2014 PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Paris, Fine Art Series Honourable Mention
Exhibitions
03/2016 Arte Laguna Prize, Finalists Exhibition, Arsenale, Venice, work selected
10/2015 The London Independent Photography 27th Annual Exhibition, The Embassy Tea Gallery, London, work selected
06/2015 Degree Show, The Old Truman Brewery, London
10/2014 The London Independent Photography 26th Annual Exhibition, The Embassy Tea Gallery, London, work selected
10/2013 People and Places Group Exhibition, Espacio Gallery, London
05/2013 Observations Group Exhibition, London Gallery West, University of Westminster
10/2012 Public Private Group Exhibition, Espacio Gallery, London
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